How to Create an Editorial Style Guide for Your Agency
If you want your constituents to understand and trust what your organization tells them—you need an editorial style guide.
Posts Tagged: communications
Protecting Ourselves from a Passive-Aggressive Co-worker
Protecting ourselves from a passive-aggressive co-worker is to reaffirm that self-preservation is not paranoia. Here are tips to protect yourself.
The Hawaii False Alarm Debacle: Lessons for Leaders
The good news is, there are lessons from this incident that leaders in any government organization can learn from.
Quick Tips for Driving Productive Debate
When we make quick decisions in relative isolation, others are left in the dark trying to understand the rationale behind the decision. The result being delays in execution. That’s why becoming a Debate Maker is key to improved leadership.
Are You a Workplace Bully?
So, how can you tell if you’re treating another female coworker unfairly? Well, it’s not exactly easy to pinpoint micro aggressions, but it’s important to try, and GovFem is here to help.
Need a More Engaged Team? Give Them Intriguing Puzzles to Solve
How do we better engage government workers? Challenge them.
How to Stay Positive While Surrounded by Energy Vampires
Days in the office are busy enough. Avoiding unnecessary wastes-of-energy vampires makes such a difference. Here are a few tips on how to make vampire run-ins less draining.
Want to Enhance Your Social Media Presence? Let Your Inner “Leslie Knope” Shine
These simple strategies – inspired by Leslie Knope herself – can help you enhance your social media presence and promote your brand and engage your community.
Active Listening Happened When I Gave Them My Knees
Active listening means being both physically and mentally ready to listen. It also means exploring the other person’s words by drawing them out through the use of open-ended, thought-provoking questions.
“All Views Are My Own”
Why (and how!) local government staff should tell their stories on social media.